We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and ServiceNow Discovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"Nagios XI is stable."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"This solution provides excellent insights."
"They have a very good network in the infrastructure of Discovery."
"The product provides great scalability features."
"It's a single system of record and it captures the relationships."
"Discovery enables us to get an accurate inventory that's updated daily. It eliminates human error and the need for people to update configuration changes manually. We have not implemented them yet but plan to set up alerts on CIs that are being audited to see if there are any changes."
"I like ServiceNow Discovery's overall structure and the way data comes in without creating a different dashboard or interface."
"It does a good job of collecting the data that's necessary for data centers, and IT's operations."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them."
"Nagios XI can improve its GUI for users with a new look."
"The product uses the backend as Perl and could be modified to a more lightweight solution like what's being offered by other vendors."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"It is one of the most costly applications in terms of subscription costs."
"ServiceNow Discovery could improve the interface. The navigation bar could improve. It would be helpful to have a landing page to go to find all the elements in one place."
"The product could improve some of the visualization and architecture setups."
"The solution should improve the classes of discovery assets to disregard more junk data."
"ServiceNow is very costly."
"Debugging is a bit tough in ServiceNow Discovery, so debugging should be made very easy."
"Instead of AI, even GenAI should be introduced in ServiceNow Discovery."
"ServiceNow Discovery should be updated to provide its users with more out-of-the-box information and attributes to support the routers and switches from Cisco."
Nagios XI is ranked 5th in Server Monitoring with 54 reviews while ServiceNow Discovery is ranked 3rd in Server Monitoring with 36 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while ServiceNow Discovery is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow Discovery writes "Valuable relationship building that discovers and auto-builds to make cleanup easy". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga, whereas ServiceNow Discovery is most compared with Tanium, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Cloud Map and Lansweeper. See our Nagios XI vs. ServiceNow Discovery report.
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